Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1887-12-28


you are at our door. 1t is not
necessary to buy something to
be welcome.
1t is a good time to come to
the store. All the anxiety of
weeks of preparation and the
strain of the doubly busiest
days of the year are off and
over. Everybody has had a
sleep and a holiday, and we are
all cheerier and reader to be-
gin anew. 1t is like the rest at
midday under the trees in har-
vest time; we are refreshed,
and at it again with a will.
there's a plenty to see. The
store IS like a river at the foot
OF a mountain down whose
sides a score of steady streams
are pouring. While the outlet
is into the ocean of people, the
daily u inletting keeps everything
full and fresh.
10 be sure, after the iostling
and hurrying of the last week
before Christmas, there's a lot
of things dusty and clipped
and soiled. There are also
things that were broken in the
deliveries and returned by GUS
toners. But then these are
put by themselves and sold at
seldom more than half price.
Whatever the sacrifice, we
cannot keep everything butper-
feet goods for sale. Whoever
buys of us shall depend on
three things-three P's worth
remembering:
a Perfect goods
b Proper values
Privilege of return
The surge and sweep of the
Christmas throngs cannot but
do dust-damage and make
breakages somewhere.
To give an idea of how it
goes, take the night before we
write, when the crowd was not
so large as any one of the two
or three nights before. Out
of curiosity we counted the
people that passed a single
point in five minutes near the
centre entrance on Chestnut
street, and there was afull thou
sand of them, good humored
and happy. To verify the
count we repeated the expert
ment, and proved the thousand
over again. A thousand in
five minutes and six other
large entrances through which
thePeoplewerecomin ! Would
they come if there was nothing
at least worth seeing?
If a few goods are hurt in
the crowd, we will not grumble.
They are for sale soon as
Christmas is over for what
they'll fetch, and the prices we
put on them bring the custom
ers quickly soon as the news
gets around.
They are principally Books
and Fancy Goods and Hand
kerchiefs, and the goods used
in the windows and other dis
plays.
There are remnants of Dress
Goods, too. The accumula-
ton is something enormous.
You see there's no time in the
rush to watch against remnant
making. Every piece is cut,
and the balance is stuffed
away. Now comes the over
hauling. Out with the rem
nants. Sell them. The lot is
immense, and off they must
go. Theweek between Christ
mas day and the New Year is
the harvest time for remnant
buyers.
While the "rightlng up" in
certain holiday departments
goes on with all possible zeal,
the larger part of the store is
in its usual well prepared con-
dition, offering a full stock o.
the well-tried, accepted makes
of merchandise. 1t is worth
knowing that the fundamental
principles of the store are
never lost sight of. We will
sprinkle the best bargains thai
can be had over all the bust
ness, but without fail we shall
maintain at all times with al
vigilance the most Perfec
stock of whatever the bes
manufacturers of the worlc
produce.
The Star Course of Mer
chandise is the uninterrupted
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